Jared has an honourary PhD in Pokemon Happiness

Lysandre’s design as fun to play around with because he’s supposed to be very suave and attractive and obsessed with beauty and all that, and the easiest route for the GameFreak guys on that probably would have just been to make some kind of Vega clone but instead they elected to design some kin of big hairy dude who looks like the scienceBaby of Will Powers, Damon Gant, and Ganondorf. I still feel like as far as beardy older guys go Lysandre should still be kind of a pretty dude, because beardy doesn’t necessarily have to mean rugged. So when I was figuring out how I wanted to interpret his Pokemon design into this style I tried to splice in a heavy dose of David Bowie, because I could totally see Lysandre being some kind of weird french Ganon-Jareth

It’s not like Giovanni was hard. The Gym Leader that gave me the hardest time ever was Winona from RSE and that was because her Altaria was a Dragon/Flying that used Dragon Dance, two STAB moves, and Earthquake to cover their resistances.

Luvdisk wouldn’t be too bad, though. It starts with Tackle and learns Watergun at Lv 7, and does have ok stats for the start of the game.

I suggest giving the player Sunkern as a starter. It’s sucky, but not bad enough to just abandon immediately, especially if you make grass-types rare. You’d keep it with you just in case you get a Sun stone so you can evolve it, but of course the only Sunstone you get is after beating Elite Four.

Well… it was really more the discovery of a whole bunch of large round objects beyond pluto that made them finally sit down and think about what a planet actually is. And well… pluto didn’t belong once they made the definition.

They discovered more that 200 planet like objects, some were bigger than Pluto. I feel like grade school would have been 100x worse if I had to memorize 200 planets named after crazy greek and roman people.

I still think Pluto should have been grandfathers into the new solar system though.

See I always wondered about that though… What do the pokemon eat in the pokemon world if they’re not allowed to let pokemon eat pokemon? Obviously there are carnivorous pokemon out there – Mr. Fish is a prime example of that! One cannot expect something obviously so carnivorous to be able to sustain itself on acorns and fruits alone.

Or is it just that you can’t eat other pokemon trainer’s pokemon? Cause that would give a whole new meaning to “fainting” wild pokemon…

On a side note, I would also love to see White Ganondorf dude and Ganondorf talking about hair products. They have to put SOMETHING in that hair to get it to stay like that.

Yeah, after all, there are a lot of pokedex entries mentioning pokemon eating other pokemon (half of them feature magikarp as the meal of choice), how does that work once captured? Are the “puffs” from X&Y filled with meat?

i cook for my English bulldog, i steam him up some rice mix it with egg then bake it together with some potatoes and onions. he eats better then i do sometimes, but my point is… sometimes carnivore means too stupid to eat non meat products.

Yep, Pokemon do eat other Pokemon. In the Adventures Manga (officially stated to be the closest representation of the creators idea) Pokemon will hunt other Pokemon. Pidgeotto will gladly munch on a nice Caterpie or Weedle.

In all honesty, Mr. Fish is actually the calmest Gyrados ever. When they get in a rage, they’re capable of leveling entire cities. Natural disaster levels of destruction.
When you think about it, Jared’s loving relationship with Mr. Fish is probably saving the city. A mistreated Gyrados would throw a tantrum that would cause so much damage Cap would have to go back in time to prevent it.

Why do people saying Cap or Captain? He is COMMANDER Badass. Calling him Captain Badass would sound even dumber, and pretty much the whole agency would never let him live down that cheesy superhero name.

I just figure that all that hair is sort of a throwback to eras where freaking huge mutton chops were the trend for gentlemen. Also, I totally love how he can be both hairy and pretty in your interpretation. Not a combination that people draw very often, it’s interesting to see.

Ah, Pokemon Amie. It’s ridiculously easy to get Pokemon up to the max (In fact, there are only two pojemon in my party who are below 4 stars of affection.) Keep playing minigames and keep petting them and eventually you’ll get an absolute monster of a Pokemon that will gain boosted experience, survive otherwise lethal hits and shrug off effects at random. Keep in mind I am observing these effects before the SECOND GYM. Maybe I spend too much time on Pokemon Amie.

Feed pet and play: after 20-30 minutes, your pokemon becomes some kind of unstoppable super-determinator fueled by the power of love. Love really is one of the strongest forces in the universe, especially when channeled into a beam and fired at your foes.

Well… except for Shedinja, at least. He’s too dead to eat, so it takes nearly 3 times as long to max his amie.

Yeah I…. got to that point before I finished going through the first forest. XD;;;; Waayyyy too much time on Pokemon Amie. It seriously feels like the greatest game hack ever invented though because now they’re like hardcore about being friendly. Aw, my Furfrou was burned? She’ll blow it out so I don’t worry. Braixen poisoned? He’ll shrug that off like a honey badger. Oh snap, somebody just used Flamethrower on my Lucario? He’ll hang onto that one HP and pull through! Best. Bonus system. Ever.

I can’t… I just can’t… This comic is just too awesome. Nothing’s happening and it’s just wonderful. I can’t… It’s a close to perfect as an online comic can be.
Lysandre is perfect, the fact that his mere presence makes him dominate nearly every scene. And his style. And the dialogue.

It seriously messed with my head when a certain villain’s sole motive was to learn if being nice to Pokemon made them stronger.
Apparently, none of those guys who call themselves “Pokemon Professors” bothered to figure that one out & publish the findings. (To be fair, Rowan claimed to focus on evolution exclusi-OH WAIT, PLENTY OF POKEMON EVOLVE DUE TO HAPPINESS NEVER MIND)

Who said he’d be handling it? XD The city would run amok with angsty teens and their super powered pets, and nobody but the Agency would be on hand for clean-up duty…That being said, Jared would probably do a hell of a lot better at teaching than the professors. I doubt he’d kick kids out into the world after what he’s gone through, and would probably make one heck of a day-care assistant if it didn’t work out…depending on whether or not he could stop Mr. Fish from eating all the eggs. And pokemon.

I must say that I am in love with this comic. A friend directed me to it a week ago and I read all of it in one sitting because it is THAT amazing. I’ve been stalking your page since, patiently awaiting a new page.
I also gotta say I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw a bit of Ganondorf in Lysandre. The first time I saw him I actually told my sister “Look! It’s the love-child of Ganondorf and Wolverine!”
Love that you crossed him with Bowie to make him look more elegantly manly.

OK fine…but at least switch it up a bit. Like maybe make it so the guy that looks and acts evil is actually the good guy in a pokemon game, and the most goody guy is actually the villain. I mean pokemon could do this!

Black/White is worth playing. I never really expected Pokemon to tell a story hinging on animal abuse and the right to bear arms, much less the stance they took given Japan’s weapon policy, but there it is.

I know i probably can’t hope for more, but. I’ll keep on hoping for somethig.

Nice picture. I actually kind of look like this guy with my facial hair and and structure, but I don’t have the muscle tone for the rest of him:(. I just wish I COULD grow it long and wear it back in badass ponytail, or loose like it is here.

In a world where it is just being found out mega evolution is linked to affection and companionship as well as leading pokemon to preform more critical hits as well as be the pre requisite for an eeveelotion it makes sense it makes sense that his work is ground breaking and could be considered a development for the pokemon amie system